The rampage was perpetrated by John Allen Muhammad (then aged 42) and Lee Boyd Malvo (then 17), driving a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan.
Nothing like assumptions...
The (incompetent) Chief of Police was black.
When he said: ‘white van’ it rhymed with ‘white MAN’...
I guarantee that his officers were not looking for two black men in the trunk of a domestic sedan...